Atrocities Quote by Judith Lewis Herman

“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“,,The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness (...) Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried". ,,Filk wisdom is filled with ghosts…

— Judith Herman

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and…

— Jon Corzine

There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which…

— George Eliot

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

— Clancy Brown

The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into…

— John Mortimer

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

— Ellen Glasgow

It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political…

— Kenan Malik

No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.

— Steven Pinker

No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may…

— Louis D. Brandeis